ELIZA'S LEGACY: WHY PEOPLE CONFIDE IN CHATBOTS
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Sixty years after MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA, the first chatbot, people continue sharing secrets with AI systems like ChatGPT. The pattern established by early human-computer interactions now shapes how users engage with modern language models.
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